What allows us to smell? Our nose of course!
When you breathe in the smells in the air enter your nose and help you to taste things. The air is sucked up by the mucus (snot!) inside your nose.
Nerve endings in the back of your nose that work like smell detectors take in the smell, and together with the sense of taste, send nerve messages to your brain, allowing you to taste different flavors.
Not being able to smell is like having a cold, when your nose gets all blocked up, and you can’t really taste your food.
Did you know?
Our nose never stops growing until the day we die!
